This is the annual European Community Long‑range Transboundary Air Pollution (LRTAP) Convention Emission Inventory report. The report, and its accompanying data, are provided by the European Commission (on behalf of the European Community), as an official submission to the secretariat for the Executive Body of the LRTAP Convention.

The subsequent sections of this report provide general information on the institutional arrangements and data sources that underpin the European Community's LRTAP Convention Inventory (Chapter 1), emission trends by pollutant(Chapter 2), the contribution made to emissions by key categories (Chapter 3) and the recalculations that have been made to previously-reported emission estimates (Chapter 4) by the EU-27 Member States (MS) *).

Emission trendsDue to gaps in the data reported by MS, aggregated EU-15 *) and EU-12 *) totals have been calculated for NOX, CO, NMVOCs, SOX, and NH3 only. Across the EU-27, the reported emissions of nitrogen oxides in 2005 had decreased by more than 34 %, and sulphur dioxide by around 70 % since 1990. Significant reductions have also occurred for the other pollutants during this period. A reduction in emissions has taken place across many of the sectorsreported by countries including transport, energy, agriculture and waste.

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